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A new study by research company Mintel shows that the game of bingo is enjoyed on a regular basis internationally by some 3.5 million punters, and the demographic of those playing the game has shifted towards a younger segment, with 20 percent of players now coming from the 18 to 24 age group.
The 18 to 45 age bracket accounts for 62 percent of all bingo play...

The relatively new London advertising agency Campbell Lace Beta has followed its success in picking up the Thomas Cook account earlier this week by winning a pitch against Publicis for the JackpotJoy Bingo account, a major online gambling company owned by Gamesys. The budget for the account was not disclosed but is believed to be substantial.
CLB will now wor...

Definition 6, an Atlanta-based, independent and interactive marketing agency, has launched TwitterINGO, the first gaming application developed for the popular social networking micro-blogging site, Twitter.com.
The desktop application is similar to Bingo and is complete with 25 keywords on a board. TwitterINGO displays tweets from people that players follow a...

The cliche "finders keepers, losers weepers" was firmly rejected this week as a Swindon, UK couple admitted to theft and fraud in a criminal court.
The couple found a lottery ticket on the floor of a supermarket in April this year, noted that the buyer had not endorsed it with an identifying mark or name, and cashed it in, going on a spending spree with their...

Many players were scratching their heads this week over an unusual T&C at an online bingo and casino gaming venue: it calls for a 15x playthrough requirement before any withdrawal is allowed - whether the player has taken a bonus or not!
In fairness to RTG-powered Saturn Bingo.com...

Bingo Slot win of almost $117 000
The Top Game-powered Rome Casino.com reports a major winner over the weekend.
Online player CynthiaB of Florida in the United States was playing the Bingo Slot to kill time before heading out to the movies when she wagered on a single spin of the reels to hit a remarkable return of $116 728.
The player has plans for a...

Canadian lottery player Barry Shell experienced a bitter sweet moment in Toronto this week when he learned that he had won Cdn$ 4 million on the lottery.
Arriving at the offices of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp to claim his windfall, he was met by police detective Kevin Finley and informed he was under arrest.
"I hate to wreck your happy dance," Fin...

Coinciding with its acquisition by Party Gaming this week, Cashcade online bingo group has announced the launch of its latest online bingo website, Graces Bingo.com
The new UK-based site joins a stable of well established online bingo brands operated for Cashcade that includes MirrorBingo.com, ThinkBingo.com, CheekyBingo.com and FoxyBingo.com.
The new ven...

Despite it's high profile disdain for online gambling business in the United States, e-cash processor PayPal appears to have no such reservations in the E uropean market, where it continues to sign up top gambling groups for its services.
The latest company to offer PayPal facilities is GTech G2 which says that the agreement will enable its UK bingo partners...

Underaged gambling on the UK lottery is significantly tougher to achieve following the introduction of stringent child protection measures by lottery operator Camelot, the UK National Lottery Commission reports.
The Commission backs up this assertion with the results of a study of a hefty sample of 9 000 youths that shows the number of twelve to fifteen year...

Online bingo sites SunBingo.co.uk and NOTWBingo.co.uk have budgeted over GBP 500 000 in a promo that currently offers players the chance to win one of 100 new cars on wagers as low as two pounds sterling.
Running through to September 27, players who deposit or wager a minimum of two pounds on bingo or ten pounds on slots at SunBingo.co.uk and NOTWBingo.co.uk...

It may just be coincidence, but the latest press release from the UK online bingo operator Tombola.co.uk could be interpreted as a challenge to this week's claims by a bingo information site that Cashcade is the biggest UK bingo provider.
The Tombola release claims the firm has always led the way in the UK online bingo market through its management of Sun Bin...

The timing could not have been better; as UK online bingo group Cashcade was being snapped up by Party Gaming last week for a reported GBP 100 million an independent statistical site pronounced the bingo operator as the UK leader in the field.
Cashcade operates top brands like Foxy Bingo, Mirror Bingo, Think Bingo and Cheeky Bingo, and has been consistently h...

The Guardian newspaper in the UK reports that a charity bingo hall in a suburb of Los Angeles in the United States has generated millions of dollars for Jewish settlements in disputed territory in the Middle East through regular nightly sessions over the past 20 years.
The Hawaiian Gardens charity sessions pay the winner in each game $500, but some of the pro...

For several weeks now there has been widespread speculation on who would acquire the UK online gambling group Cashcade . Would it be Party Gaming, 888.com or some other major group with the financial clout to close the deal?
This weekend the UK newspaper The Times provided the answer, reporting that Internet gambling group Party Gaming has clinched the deal w...

The UK Gambling Commission published its annual report for 2008-2009 this week, revealing that a total of 520 operating licences were issued during the year, mainly to small operators or converted lottery licences, of which the majority went to land betting operators, gaming machine suppliers and society lotteries.
As at 31 March 2009, a total of 4 166 operat...

The online bingo operation of one of the UK's major gambling groups, Gala Bingo has announced the July launch of a series of new side games, adding variety to the gaming offering to players.
The Orbis-Wagerworks Mini Games suite consists of three games: Transformers, Battleships and Dungeons and Dragons.
The site already boasts three Mini Games, branded G...

The UK newspaper The Daily Mirror reports that a nationwide scratchcard competition that was promoted in more than 300 publications has been fined GBP100 000.
Called Cash Attack, the competition required players to match three symbols on the card and then call a 090 number to claim a prize, or text a keyword printed on the card.
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Virtue Fusion Alderney's growing online bingo network signed another member this week when Krone Bingo.dk, a Danish bingo operation, joined the network, promising large progressive slot jackpots alongside tempting player sign up bonuses.
Powered by software from Virtue Fusion, KroneBingo.dk has twelve progressive slot jackpots currently standing at values up...

Canadian online bingo software developer Parlay Entertainment has launched Parlay Game Services North America, providing a hosted and managed game content solution for the existing North American regulatory environment.
A web-based entertainment offering, PGS North America will connect land-based operators, suppliers and other businesses to an interactive com...